Articles By: Spencer Irvine

We reported on this Rethinking Schools survey, which claimed there was a lot of negative feelings after the election of Donald Trump among students and teachers. It apparently has been debunked. This piece of news…

Uh, fifty types of microaggressions? Those exist? Multiple groups at Virginia Tech have collaborated to collect “microaggression testimonials” from students, who came up with roughly 50 different expressions that offend them. The examples are currently displayed…

Looks like the Syracuse chancellor has the right idea, considering this country is one built on rule of law: Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud today “expressed support for undocumented students” but said the school “must comply…

Unlike professors who haven’t read the federal budget, scholars who actually have can’t find any cuts. The Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion on how to improve agency performance with fiscal discipline, and two professors…

From The College Fix: Notre Dame has invited every president since Dwight Eisenhower to give its commencement address. That streak might end with President-elect Donald Trump. Student newspaper The Observer reports that Notre Dame President…

American University college students demand that a board member trustee should be fired for meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump. Seriously?! Gary Cohn, President of Goldman Sachs, serves as the chair of the Board’s Finance and…

From the Washington Free Beacon: The Virginia Military Institute, the first state-sponsored military college in the country founded in 1839, offers a “stress busters” program to provide students with yoga classes to “unwind and relax.”…

Rethinking Schools conducted an online survey, in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center, on the post-Trump school climate. Here are their findings: The results of the over 25,000 responses were frightening: Nine out of…

From Inside Higher Ed: Faculty members across the University of Wisconsin System have fought — mostly unsuccessfully — a number of changes to their tenure protections since 2015, when the Wisconsin Legislature voted to strike…

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